Error on Windows 11 when starting Homestead: ntdll.dll SizeOfImage isn't close enough to the mapping size

[muriloeliaseinov]

Hi Homestead team 👋

I'm experiencing a critical error when running vagrant up with Laravel Homestead on Windows 11. The virtual machine fails to start and returns an error related to ntdll.dll. I’ve tried several common solutions (updating VirtualBox, disabling antivirus, reinstalling Vagrant/Homestead), but the issue persists.

🖥️ Environment
OS: Windows 11 Home
Windows Version: 24H2
OS Build: 26100.3476
Windows Experience Pack: 1000.26100.54.0
Vagrant: 2.4.3
VirtualBox: 6.1.50 r161033
Homestead Box: laravel/homestead version 14.0.2

🧨 Error
When I run vagrant up, I get the following error:

VBoxManage.exe: error: The virtual machine 'homestead' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1).
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_FAIL (0x80004005), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine

And from the VBoxHardening.log file:

ntdll.dll: SizeOfImage (0x263000) isn't close enough to the mapping size (0x266000)
supHardenedWinVerifyProcess failed with Unknown Status -5607 (0xffffea19)

📄 VBoxHardening.log snippet

supHardenedWinVerifyProcess failed with Unknown Status -5607 (0xffffea19): 
ntdll.dll: SizeOfImage (0x263000) isn't close enough to the mapping size (0x266000)

✅ What I've Tried
Updated VirtualBox (compatible with homestead) and Vagrant to latest versions
Ran sfc /scannow to check system integrity
Temporarily disabled antivirus software
Tried running VirtualBox in compatibility mode (Windows 10)
Reinstalled Homestead from scratch

❓Expected Behavior
The Homestead virtual machine should start properly with vagrant up without failing due to DLL verification.

If this issue is more related to VirtualBox than Homestead, I’m happy to open the ticket in the correct repository. Just looking for guidance to get Homestead running again on this setup.

Thanks in advance for your help! 🙏
Murilo